The General Board of the Faculties recommends the creation of a statutory Readership in Social Anthropology and asks Council and the Chest for their approval.

Peter Rivière DC1/1/2: 14 June 1935; OUG 1935-6: 382, 609, 714

The filling of the readership was suspended early in 1936, then postponed, and finally, when the statute approving the establishment of the chair was approved in June 1936, the readership was abolished

May

June

9

Ernest Seymour Thomas dies in post, with him gone cataloguing work effectively ceases in the museum

Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1935-36

July

August

September

October

No day

Five years’ funding from the Rockefeller Foundation for a Research Lecturership is provided with effect from Michaelmas Term 1935. E.E. Evans-Pritchard is first recipient

Peter Rivière

October

No day

Penniman takes on Balfour's teaching commitments in his absence in Michaelmas Term

Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1935-36

October to ?

No days

Balfour very ill, spends time in nursing home

Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1935-36

November

19

Congregation, Decree passed awarding Balfour personal title of Professor as long as he holds post as Curator